Re: [Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

2014-08-22 Per discussione David Woolley
On 22/08/14 15:23, Brian Prangle wrote: I'll leave it to others to judge whether this is data they would want on the map, but: Thankful_Village= yes_WWI Thankful_Village= double_WWIII I believe that Thankful_Village=WWI Thankful_Village=WWI;WWII would be more in the spirit of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Thankful Villages

2014-08-22 Per discussione David Woolley
On 22/08/14 15:50, David Woolley wrote: Thankful_Village=WWI Thankful_Village=WWI;WWII Other things I would want to investigate are whether this can be generalised to other countries: do the Americans have a similar category; does it include Korean and Vietnam wars? What about

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Per discussione David Woolley
On 18/08/14 10:59, SomeoneElse wrote: Whilst the existance of a highway=pedestrian area that isn't connected is an indication of something, it's usually just an indication of that mapping in a particular area is not complete. Considering the longer term problems: 1) There needs to be better

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Per discussione David Woolley
On 18/08/14 12:15, SK53 wrote: There are plenty of examples of people building routers for people with restricted mobility using OSM data (for instance wheelchair users, blind people etc). Most of us will map steps on footways simply because even one step acts as a barrier to wheelchair users or

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Per discussione David Woolley
On 12/08/14 23:08, Rob Nickerson wrote: 6, The Hollies, Birmingham Road, Town, Cases I've seen are maisonettes and parades of shops. I've used: housenumber: 5 street: The Hollies, Birmingham Road but that is more to ensure the data is captured than because it really seems right to me.

Re: [Talk-GB] UK addresses

2014-08-13 Per discussione David Woolley
On 13/08/14 11:36, Will Phillips wrote: 2. I don't agree that tagging only postcode and 'addressable object' is a good idea. To convert that into a full address requires access to a closed database. Surely the whole point about OSM is creating useful It's also a database which is incomplete;

Re: [Talk-GB] Licences for Highways and PRoW data (Was: C roads again)

2014-08-13 Per discussione David Woolley
On 13/08/14 12:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: They have to maintain a written List of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense. Councils also allocate addresses for streets not maintained at public expense (and it is my impression that many new residential streets, including most

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road (going a bit OT)

2014-08-11 Per discussione David Woolley
On 11/08/14 10:33, Dave F. wrote: On 05/08/2014 15:00, Curon Davies wrote: On 5 August 2014 14:25, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote: One reason I haven't added it is because it's illegal (AFAIK. The owners of the land local councillor failed to reply to my

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-07 Per discussione David Woolley
On 06/08/14 22:29, Dave F. wrote: Really sorry to say this, but some of your edits have been a bit off. In JOSM do you load all the data in the area you're editing? I've noticed you move whole entities, such as fences, but seem unaware that action affects any joined elements like other fences or

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-06 Per discussione David Woolley
On 05/08/14 12:00, Pavlo Dudka wrote: There is also nice project Multilingual Map created as part of Multilingual maps wikipedia project(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_wikipedia_project). Unfortunately, the only realisation of this concept that I have found (not

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Per discussione David Woolley
On 05/08/14 00:37, Lester Caine wrote: Simply writing a name in a different alphabet is something that the renderer can do if required. There is rarely a 1:1 mapping between different alphabets, except within a single country, and the mapping depends on both source and destination languages

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Per discussione David Woolley
On 05/08/14 08:05, Pavlo Dudka wrote: No, I don't want to add name:uk for cities or other objects that were never mentioned it ukrainian texts. This is redundant. Unfortunately, there are lots of cases where people add detailed data that, although possibly not mechanically derivable from

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Per discussione David Woolley
On 04/08/14 16:15, Pavlo Dudka wrote: Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found that SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset 20757217 with a comment reverting undiscussed Ukrainian translations including There might be some need to check that: -

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-03 Per discussione David Woolley
On 03/08/14 17:02, Tom Hughes wrote: In reality such roads may, even though they are not adopted and are hence not maintained at public expense, be highways with an associated right of way for the public. That's more likely for long established, and probably rural roads. For recently

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-07-31 Per discussione David Woolley
On 31/07/14 17:01, Nick Allen wrote: actual stop was. As a result of this, it is quite possible that there are stops shown in the right place with the correct tags concerning shelters, benches, tactile paving, name of stop, timetables or bus route references displayed, etc, but added to a

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-28 Per discussione David Woolley
On 27/07/14 22:26, ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: So there should be a clear tagging that is distinct for the meaning of “trunk (UK sense)” vs “trunk (International sense) The logical conclusion of this would be that there would have to be a different tag for every jurisdiction. In this

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-25 Per discussione David Woolley
On 25/07/14 17:15, Philip Barnes wrote: Are you proposing we tag for the renderer by not tagging trunk roads as trunk? No. He wants people to tag for the router, not the renderer. I think that is a bad idea, although not as bad when most trunk roads weren't already mapped, as it is doing

[Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down since at least Sunday

2014-07-11 Per discussione David Woolley
os.openstreetmap.org has been down every time I've tried since last Sunday. I've tried from two completely unrelated ISPs. I've googled for news, but found none, and the wiki still quotes it as the official tile server for OpenData StreetView. ___

[Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Per discussione David Woolley
Is there any mechanism for reporting and reverting vandalism that doesn't tend to associate the non-OSM internet identity of the reporter with their likely physical location. As far as possible I try to avoid my internet ID and my physical location being associated, but assume that the OSM ID

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Per discussione David Woolley
On 05/08/13 11:22, SomeoneElse wrote: David Woolley wrote: I don't even want to go into too much detail about the nature of the vandalism here. If you did want to give an example without making any specific reference, perhaps you could perform similar vandalism (in a different place

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Per discussione David Woolley
On 05/08/13 12:37, Craig Wallace wrote: You can revert it yourself, using the JOSM reverter plugin. OK Thanks. I suspected something like that must exist, but I'd got to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism, which led me to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log,

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